The Cultural Industries

The specific conditions of cultural industries

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Chapter 1 The Cultural Industries

The specific conditions of cultural industries
The cultural industries approach’s greater ability to deal with contradiction stems from another important advantage: its ability to combine an interest in relations between general economy and cultural industries (which is a key concern in the Schiller-McChesney tradition) with an analysis of what
8 Some teachers and students tend to equate the cultural pessimism of Adorno and
Horkheimer and some of their Frankfurt School colleagues with political economy, defining one by the other. However, as we saw in the Introduction, Miège founds his particular approach on a critique of Adorno and Horkheimer. For many in the Schiller-
McChesney tradition, the theoretical concerns of the Frankfurt School seem to be more or less irrelevant.
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Analytical Frameworks distinguishes industrial cultural production from other forms of industrial production (which isn’t). It was work within the cultural industries approach that provided the breakdown of the specific conditions of cultural produc- tion laid out in the Introduction.

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